ASTA HTTP Server, AstaISAPI, AstaDSO

ASTA Soap Servers can be run as a Standalone SOAP Server or as an ISAPI DLL or Apache DSO. When runnging standalone, That soap server, which uses the AstaIO Native Cross platform sockets (available in ASTA 3 also), can publish SOAP services coded directly from the ASTA HTTP Server or through ASTA Servers.



When the AstaHTTPSoapServer is started up, a list of available ASTA Servers is made available and the SOAP Server queries the ASTA Servers for avaialable Servermethods tagged as being available to be published as a SOAP Service.

The SoapServer then publishes a WSDL file that contains the sum of all of the ServerMethods coded directly from the SOAP Server and from ASTA Servers.

Thus soap services can be made available with no knowledge of XML. when using ASTA Servers, all threading and database connection pooling is handled by the ASTA servers so that this solution is extremely scalable. Load Balancing and Fail Over optios are available also.

The AstaSkyWire line will include the ability for scripted ASTA server methods to be defined via VBScript. Once defined, those methods will flow through the normal ASTA SOAP architecture. Thus SOAP Services can be defined at runtime without re-starting ASTA Servers or SOAP Servers.

There will also be an ASTA COM Proxy server that can read COM Methods and publish those methods as SOAP Servers.